^ @Emaan - yea I was thinking the same thing; and Club(bing) 101 is kind of an endearing / welcoming name.

Club LoL feels like a nod to an Internet "fad", which already sounds a bit dodgy and even antiquated down the road. Just my speculation, though. Of course, the latter name would lend itself to the online nature of this entry but it seems a bit... unprofessional. Still it's hard not to wonder what decision process eliminated Club 444. Was it too 'hip'; either way I'm sure KK was down for it.

^ @Emaan - yea I was thinking the same thing; and Club(bing) 101 is kind of an endearing / welcoming name.

Club LoL feels like a nod to an Internet "fad", which already sounds a bit dodgy and even antiquated down the road. Just my speculation, though. Of course, the latter name would lend itself to the online nature of this entry but it seems a bit... unprofessional. Still it's hard not to wonder what decision process eliminated Club 444. Was it too 'hip'; either way I'm sure KK was down for it.

They've done it in a way that means you can call it 101 or lol really. The sign could almost be either and there's no spoken dialogue in the game, so make it what you want it I guess there's something nice about a club that makes you laugh out loud.

Also, I strongly disagree with the idea that "lol" may soon become (or has already become) "antiquated". All evidence suggests otherwise. One sign of survival is its movement out of the internet, not just into text messages and written notes but even spoken language. I can't agree that it's still "an internet fad". It's in the Oxford dictionary (and others): http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/LOL

The funny thing is, we can view this as a bad thing, allowing slang to modify and cheapen our language... but that's how we got a lot of our words, and this happened in the 20th century, the 19th century, the 18th century etc. Slang becomes common and becomes a part of English. It's happened countless times before, but this one is from the internet, that's the only difference.

It's likely that many people here in this forum use English words without realising that they were originally slang that became incorporated into the language. Like describing something as being such a rush, or asking someone to "cough it up" when they have something they aren't giving you, or when you describe a lover as a flame ("she's his old flame"), or when you describe something easy as being a breeze, or using "G" to mean a grand, or using "coin" to mean money, or even using "low" to describe your mood. These were all slang that became a part of English (I paid special attention to American slang because I think there are a lot of American readers here). Kids growing up today have "lol" in their language. At that point, it's no longer a fad.

The reason we don't have 444 in the western name, is because those three numbers don't mean anything to us. Who ever says 444 here? Apparently, as I think someone mentioned before, the number 4, in Japan, is considered an unlucky number. So putting three of them together is kind of like a joke, that of course us in the west wouldn't understand. We hear 101 in quite a lot of things here, so I guess it makes sense.

I'm just going to go by the fact that it can be considered both 101 and lol, depending on how you look at it. As Dr. Shrunk does in fact have comedy shows there, and its a night club at other times.

I don't think I would be as bothered if it weren't for the cheesy commercial lady saying "Stop by Club Lol!" . Then again, I'm starting to question why this bothered me so much in the first place.

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This will be my first Animal Crossing game! I think I'm going to go with a Stephen King (favorite author) based name for my town, and Roland for my character's name... or just use my real name, we'll see.
It's very interesting reading all of your cool ideas!

Watch a video of the first 50 minutes of gameplay, and this got me interested in it, and quite excited to the point that when my new 3DS arrives, ill have this on my list to purchase, or be the free game from the promotion ill download!

I haven't played a iteration of Animal Crossing since Wild World was released, back then I played tons of it, especially online with people over a fan site called Animal Crossing Community, but I stopped when I felt the game wasn't offering anything new and that's why I never finished collecting all the museum stuff.
This new 3DS version looks brilliant, it has way more customization, more animals, the ability to be mayor and set ordinances etc, IMO this is what Wild World should've been like, but I guess the DS does have limitations; it was fun while it lasted.